Interesting Debate -- Better Recruiter, John Calipari or Pete Carroll?

Calipari just got John Wall. UK suddenly seems loaded. Carroll pretty much gets everyone west of Texas to come to USC. Interestingly, both...

The Morning According to Us

...at the new Yankee Stadium. Nah, we kid. Actually, to raise 250,000 pounds for at-risk UK youths and impoverished Himalayans, and set the record for the highest-ever sports match. Mission accomplished. The...

MMA Submission: Preparing for the end

...the UFC, and Dana White has been very successful with Michael Bisping and Marcus Davis in the UK. KOSCHECK STAYS BUSY Off his not-so-controversial stoppage loss to Paulo Thiago (I thought the ref...

Meet Hull City: America's New Team, Albeit From Britain

Hull City was literally minutes from not existing as a soccer club. Now they're playing Man U. What happened, and why should the American side of the pond care?

The Morning According to Us: What's In a Sports Name?

To many in the UK's Muslim and Jewish communities, the Middlesex County Cricket Club's decade-old nickname, Crusaders, is actually...

The Morning According to Us

...outlandish promotional stunt of Veeckian proportions or rather, a courageous charitable endeavor benefitting impoverished Himalayans and disadvantaged UK youths? Ostensibly, the latter, but this match is imbued with a healthy dose of unabashed showmanship. So...

The Morning According to Us

...and Kerrigan out. Maybe this is the dawn of a more whimsical age of hooliganism in the UK. After all, a blogger for the Guardian argued yesterday that these days, Americans are far more hooliganstic...

The Morning According to Us

...and we mean that in precisely the manner it looks and sounds. Smith had his supporters at UK, the kind of people who could see a more recent trip to the Final Four was almost...

Clip Reel: Jodie Meeks

...4th-grade students in Kentucky talking about the Cats. Was anyone else surprised that the single-game UK scoring record, until last night, was held by Dan Issel? We had it pegged to Walker, Delk...

MMA Submission: Awards Time

Check out the MMA Submission archives. Years from now, MMA fans should look back on 2008 as the second-most important year in the sport's history. T...

Xavier vs. Cincy Hoops: The Best Rivalry There Is?

...If you hit all the traffic lights right, XU and Cincy are about eight minutes apart (sorry, UK and Louisville!). They play just once a year (sorry, Duke/UNC). Players that no one ever remembers...

Clip Reel: Past Jimmy V Classics

...WVU, Texas and Villanova hoop it up on December 9th. 1995: Temple stuns Kansas. 2001: Duke over UK by three in OT. 2005: Michigan State hands BC its first loss of the season. 2007: Mayo...

Tayshaun hooping for UK in the 2001 Jimmy V Classic

Behind the Bets

[Ed's Note: Chad Millman is a Senior Deputy Editor at ESPN The Magazine, and once wrote a book called The Odds. His column takes a close look at the c...

The Smorgasbord

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